It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and…

“I feel the sheer unfathomable marvel that is this strange life we have, here on earth, the seven billion of us, clustered in our…

— Matt Haig

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all.…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we…

— Billy Squier

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my…

— Daniel Webster

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

— T. S. Eliot

If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's…

— Douglas Coupland

When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance…

— Angelina Grimke

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity,…

— Charles Darwin

Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the…

— John Piper

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I feel I'm living in parentheses”

— Steven Wilson

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact…

— William Thomas

“In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.”

— Anonymous

There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not…

— Steven Callahan

“I have lost patience with the idea of an insignificant human being standing up above the rest of us--whether he is called Reverend or…

— Charlotte Rogan